Leap-Year Corrections in the Calendar Are Necessary to Account for the

question 301

Multiple Choice

Leap-year corrections in the calendar are necessary to account for the

• A) fact that the actual rotation time of Earth with respect to the stars is not exactly 24 hours.
• B) wobble of Earth's axis.
• C) slow drift in the direction of Earth's spin axis.
• D) fact that 1 year is not exactly 365 days.

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