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A planet revolves about the sun in an elliptical orbit of semi-major axis . The areal velocity of the planet when it is nearest to the sun is . If the least distance between the planet and the sun is , then the minimum speed of the planet is
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The areal velocity of a planet around the sun is
, where is the angular momentum of the planet around the sun and is its mass.
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