Question: Comets travel around the sun in elliptical orbits with large eccentricities. If a comet has speed 2.0 X 10 m/s when at a distance of

Comets travel around the sun in elliptical orbits with large eccentricities. If a comet has speed 2.0 X 10 m/s when at a distance of 2.5 X 1011 m from the center of the sun, what is its speed when at a distance of 5.0 X 1010 m?

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