  One of the possible low-energy consequences of string theory is the addition
of a Chern-Simons term to the standard Einstein-Hilbert action of general
relativity. It can be argued that the quintessence field should couple to this
Chern-Simons term, and if so, it drives in the linearized theory a
parity-violating interaction between the gravito-electric and gravitomagnetic
fields. In this paper, the linearized spacetime for Chern-Simons gravity around
a massive spinning body is found to include new modifications to the
gravitomagnetic field that have not appeared in previous work. The orbits of
test bodies and the precession of gyroscopes in this spacetime are calculated,
leading to new constraints on the Chern-Simons parameter space due to current
satellite experiments.
