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The Moon on Friday, March 18, 2011: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

13.6days

Moon phase on March 18, 2011Waxing Gibbous

Friday 18 March 2011358,242 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 18, 2011, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.4% of its visible face lit, 13.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.4%Illumination at noon UTC
13.6 dMoon age
358,242 km222,601 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 2011 is on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 18:10 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 20:46 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, March 12, 201123:45
Full Moon (after)Saturday, March 19, 201118:10

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Friday, March 18, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 4, 2011 to the new moon of April 3, 2011, a cycle of 29.74 days.