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The Moon on Sunday, January 3, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 20°

Moon age

18.0days

Moon phase on January 3, 2010Waning Gibbous

Sunday 3 January 2010361,055 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 3, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.5% of its visible face lit, 18.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.5%Illumination at noon UTC
18.0 dMoon age
361,055 km224,349 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (21°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 2010 is on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 19:13 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 07:12 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 31, 200919:13
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 7, 201010:40

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Sunday, January 3, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 16, 2009 to the new moon of January 15, 2010, a cycle of 29.80 days.