What accounts for the reason a solar day differs from a sidereal day?   a. precession of Earth’s axis tilt   b. 23.5◦ axis tilt of Earth itself   c. the continual rotation of Earth during its orbit about the Sun   d. the Earth year being different than a whole number of days (356.25d)    e. the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun

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What accounts for the reason a solar day differs from a sidereal day?

  a.

precession of Earth’s axis tilt

  b.

23.5◦ axis tilt of Earth itself

  c.

the continual rotation of Earth during its orbit about the Sun

  d.

the Earth year being different than a whole number of days (356.25d) 

  e.

the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun

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