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Th law of equal areas indicates that planets travel __ when they are closer to the sun and __ when they are farther out from the sun

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Answer: faster and slower

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ANSWER:

The "law of equal areas" indicates that the planets will travel fast when they are nearer to the sun and slow when they are far away from the sun.

Step-by-step explanation:

The 'law of equal areas' states that an "imaginary line" connecting the sun and any planet sweeps an equal area in equal time.

This means that when the "planet is nearest to the sun", it moves faster and when it is 'far away from the sun', it moves slowly. The law was given by Kepler and is known as "second law of planetary motion".

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