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A waxing gibbous moon is when it is more than half full and getting bigger. A waning gibbous moon is when it is more than half full and getting smaller.

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A Waxing gibbous is the gibbous moon after a new moon, and a waning gibbous is the gibbous moon after a full moon.

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