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The Moon on Friday, March 21, 2008: Full Moon, 100% lit

Waxing · 99.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 28°

Full Moon at

18:40UTC

Moon phase on March 21, 2008Full Moon

Friday 21 March 2008393,733 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 21, 2008, the Moon was a Full Moon: 99.9% of its visible face lit, 13.8 days after the new moon and at its fullest. The exact Full Moon happened at .

99.9%Illumination at noon UTC
13.8 dMoon age
393,733 km244,654 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (28°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
FullWhole disc lit

Full moon

This is the Worm Moon, 394,649 km from Earth.

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 2008 is on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 18:40 UTC, the same day, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 17:14 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, March 14, 200810:46
Full Moon (this day)Friday, March 21, 200818:40
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 29, 200821:48

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Friday, March 21, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 2008 to the new moon of April 6, 2008, a cycle of 29.45 days.