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The Moon on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Waning Gibbous, 89% lit

Waning · 88.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on March 22, 2011Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 March 2011363,440 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 88.9% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

88.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
363,440 km225,831 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2011 is on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 18:10 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 14:33 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, March 19, 201118:10
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 26, 201112:08

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Tuesday, March 22, 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.