Remember Kepler's third law, which relates the period of revolution to the average distance to a planet. How do we modify that law to use with binary stars?

a. Add the total mass of the two stars

b. Add Newton's Law of Gravitation.
c. Add Einstein's Law of Relativity.
d. Add the difference of their masses.
e. Add the distance between the two stars.


a

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