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The Moon on Sunday, March 20, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on March 20, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 20 March 2005404,657 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 20, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.5% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
404,657 km251,442 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 20, 2005 is on Friday, March 25, 2005 at 20:59 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 09:10 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, March 17, 200519:19
Full Moon (after)Friday, March 25, 200520:59

The Moon around March 20

More about this date

Sunday, March 20, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 2005 to the new moon of April 8, 2005, a cycle of 29.47 days.