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The Moon on Tuesday, March 21, 2006: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 63.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

Moon age

21.5days

Moon phase on March 21, 2006Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 21 March 2006384,994 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 63.9% of its visible face lit, 21.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

63.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.5 dMoon age
384,994 km239,224 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (15°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 2006 is on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 23:36 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 10:15 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 14, 200623:36
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, March 22, 200619:11

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 28, 2006 to the new moon of March 29, 2006, a cycle of 29.41 days.