lunardist {gggibbous}

Lunar distances and principal phases for 2019

Description

This data set contains the distance from the Earth to the Moon for each day in 2019, as well as the dates (in UTC) of each occurrence of the four principal phases of the moon. The data are adapted from NASA.

Usage

lunardist

Format

A data frame with 365 rows and 3 variables:

date

Date

distance

Distance from the Earth to the Moon in kilometers

phase

Principal phase of the moon (full, new, first quarter, third quarter) or NA if no principal phase on that date

Source

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4442