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The Moon on Wednesday, December 22, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 15°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 2010Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 22 December 2010372,614 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.3% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
372,614 km231,532 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (15°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 2010 is on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 08:14 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 09:03 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 21, 201008:14
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, December 28, 201004:19

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2010 to the new moon of January 4, 2011, a cycle of 29.64 days.