“…Contractions of Lie algebras have been investigated by many authors [Sa61], [He66], [LeN67], [We91] and continue to be a subject of active interest, particularly in connection with the somewhat inverse problem of deforming Lie algebras [FM05], [Bu07]. Note that contractions not only link two Lie algebras but also link some objects related to these Lie algebras such as representations, invariants, special functions and quantization mappings [MN72], [DR85], [CW99], [Cp07], [Ca09], and also coadjoint orbits, which provide the motivation for the present paper, as we will explain directly, below.…”