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.

Click here to see the documentation for this object in millisecond timing precision mode.

 

Attributes

Type:

Array of integer

Access:

read/write

Default Value:

{ 0, 0, ...0, 0 }

Valid Range:

0 ≤ ForceModel.PlanetFieldType ≤ 3

 

Syntax

myVariable1 = myForceModel1.PlanetFieldType[0];

 

myForceModel1.PlanetFieldType[0] = myVariable1;

 

See also

ForceModel Object

Setting up a Force Model