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The Moon on Sunday, March 11, 2012: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

18.6days

Moon phase on March 11, 2012Waning Gibbous

Sunday 11 March 2012363,231 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 11, 2012, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.7% of its visible face lit, 18.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.7%Illumination at noon UTC
18.6 dMoon age
363,231 km225,701 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 11, 2012 is on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 09:40 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 14:37 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 8, 201209:40
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 15, 201201:25

The Moon around March 11

More about this date

Sunday, March 11, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 21, 2012 to the new moon of March 22, 2012, a cycle of 29.67 days.