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The Moon on Sunday, October 10, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 10% lit

Waxing · 10.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

2.7days

Moon phase on October 10, 2010Waxing Crescent

Sunday 10 October 2010372,049 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 10, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 10.2% of its visible face lit, 2.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

10.2%Illumination at noon UTC
2.7 dMoon age
372,049 km231,180 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 10, 2010 is on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 01:37 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 18:44 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 7, 201018:44
First Quarter (after)Thursday, October 14, 201021:28

The Moon around October 10

More about this date

Sunday, October 10, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 7, 2010 to the new moon of November 6, 2010, a cycle of 29.42 days.