I wrote: "Gravitational charge has the dimension of gravitational mass, e.g. kg_g. When it is clear you are talking about gravitational mass and not inertial mass you can simply dispense with the "sub g"."

I should have noted here that kg_g = i kg. In other words, gravitational charge is an imaginary number. It is important to keep track of the i in computations when force direction is an issue. There are some good examples of the use of i in computations in:

http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/GraviCalcs.pdf

Regards,

Horace Heffner

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