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The three-body equations of motion are examined for periodic perturbations in an earth centered coordinate frame. The lunar-laser-ranging data is then used to place upper bounds on the new l parameters associated with the earth and sun.

The consistency of the Cauchy initial value problem in a theory of gravity based on a nonsymmetric metric is investigated. It is demonstrated that the dynamical equations preserve the constraint equations as the evolution of the initial data occurs. The consistency is shown rigorously using the full field equations rather than the series expansion used previously.