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Gravitational potential energy and conservation of angular momentum

Problem

Planets move around the Sun in an elliptical path. This means sometimes in their orbit planets get farther away from the Sun.
When the planet moves away from the Sun, how does its kinetic energy and the angular momentum of the Sun-planet system change?
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