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The Moon on Sunday, March 28, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 96.2% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 15°

Moon age

12.6days

Moon phase on March 28, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 28 March 2010361,932 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 28, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.2% of its visible face lit, 12.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.2%Illumination at noon UTC
12.6 dMoon age
361,932 km224,894 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (16°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 2010 is on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 02:26 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 21:01 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 23, 201011:00
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, March 30, 201002:26

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Sunday, March 28, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 2010 to the new moon of April 14, 2010, a cycle of 29.64 days.