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← HistoryDuring celestial navigation, which outcome affects the accuracy of positional fixes due to slow clock mechanisms?
A)Elliptical orbit calculation errors
B)Spherical aberration in lenses
C)Accumulation of angular errors✓
D)Parallax shift misinterpretation
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Positional accuracy degrades because time errors cause accumulated angular errors; the slow clock induces systematic inaccuracies during the observation period, affecting the measured angles; therefore, accumulated error leads to fix errors, rather than elliptical estimation offsets.
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