ForceModel.PlanetFieldType Property

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Description

Specifies the FieldTypes to be used in modeling the Bodies' gravitational potentials.

Value Potential Field Type

0 = Point Mass Gravity

1 = Zonal Potential Terms Only

2 = Zonal and Tesseral Terms

3 = Zonal and Tesseral Terms with Solid Tides.

The array has a default dimension of 11 with the following elements:

•[0] = Mercury

•[1] = Venus

•[2] = Earth

•[3] = Mars

•[4] = Jupiter

•[5] = Saturn

•[6] = Uranus

•[7] = Neptune

•[8] = Pluto

•[9] = Moon

•[10] = Sun

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in nanosecond timing precision mode.

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Type:	Array of integer
Access:	read/write
Default Value:	{ 0, 0, ...0, 0 }
Valid Range:	0 ≤ ForceModel.PlanetFieldType ≤ 3

myVariable1 = myForceModel1.PlanetFieldType[0];

myForceModel1.PlanetFieldType[0] = myVariable1;