Question

watch the astrotour on kepler’s laws and choose the statement below that directly follows from kepler’s second law of planetary motion. choose one: a. the area swept out by the orbit of jupiter in five days is the same as the area swept out by mars in five days. b. all the planets travel in elliptical orbits around the sun. c. venus is travelling faster when it is at perihelion (the closest distance to the sun) than when it is at aphelion (the farthest distance from the sun). d. mercury’s year (the time it takes to orbit the sun once) is shorter than saturn’s year.

Explanation:

Answer:

C. Venus is traveling faster when it is at perihelion (the closest distance to the Sun) than when it is at aphelion (the farthest distance from the Sun).