Which of the following is the reason for the solar day being longer than a sidereal day?
A) precession of Earth's axis
B) the tilt of Earth's axis
C) the combined effect of the rotation of Earth and its orbit about the Sun
D) Earth year being a non-integer number of Earth days
E) the non-circular orbit of Earth around the Sun
C
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