Solved: Comets move around the sun in very elliptical

Chapter 13, Problem 13.89

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Comets move around the sun in very elliptical orbits. At its closet approach, in 1986, Comet Halley was 8.79 * 107 km from the sun and moving with a speed of 54.6 km/s. What was the comets speed when it crossed Neptunes orbit in 2006?

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