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Re: Binary stars



But angular momentum 1 is not a circular orbit it any
sense of the word. The nearest we get to a circular orbit is
a very high n s-wave.

Well, an L=1 "orbit" has circular symmetry. That is, the azimuthal
coordinate is ignorable. Do you mean that the orbit is not spherical?

Leigh