SOLUTION: The Earth, in a slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun, travels at 3.04 x 10^4m/s at perihelion (the point of closest approach, Jan.3), at a distance of 147.3 million kilometers.

Question 1093464: The Earth, in a slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun, travels at 3.04 x 10^4m/s at perihelion (the point of closest approach, Jan.3), at a distance of 147.3 million kilometers. At aphelion (the farthest distance, around July 3), 152.3 million km from the Sun, how fast is the Earth moving?
Answer by ikleyn(52835) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In this case, the two velocities are inversely proportional to the distances.

(in accordance with the Kepler' second law).

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