Score: the law of equal areas indicates that planets travel slower equal areas equal distances faster when they are closer to the sun, and equal areas faster equal distances slower when they are farther out from the sun.

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Jabari Zavala

Physics

31 August, 11:36

Score: the law of equal areas indicates that planets travel slower equal areas equal distances faster when they are closer to the sun, and equal areas faster equal distances slower when they are farther out from the sun.

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Hadley Obrien · Answer 1

The law of equal areas indicates that planets travel faster when

they are closer to the sun, and slower when they are farther out

from the sun.

The result of this is that the line from the sun to the planet sweeps out

equal areas in equal periods of time.