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by sega_sai 1256 days ago
No, that is not correct thing to use, as the semimajor axis will change as well. What is needed is the third Kepler law. The semimajor axis will be period^(2/3). And then speed will be period^(-1/3). Thus if period was changed here by roughly 5%, the speed changed by 1.6%