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The speed of the moon increases.
As a moon (or any celestial body) moves closer to the planet it orbits, it accelerates due to the gravitational pull of the planet, resulting in an increase in its orbital speed. This is consistent with Kepler's laws of planetary motion, specifically the law of areas which states that a line segment joining a planet and its satellite sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.
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