[单选题]
10.42: A comet moves in an elliptica/;z;gmc+w,birhqu( zl 0bf+gnk 8zlgl0)rd u.orbit around the sun. As the comet moves from aphelion (the point on the orbit farthest from the sun) to )glgnd.k8zf0 rl0bu+ perihelion (the point on the orbit closest to the sun), which of the following results is true?