I think this will be the last installment of my Interplanetary Hockey series. I'm spreading myself a bit thin and I need to take a break to reassess my priorities in life. Take a step back, reorganize everything, and start over.

By the way, the Mercury game ended with a 1963-1957 victory, with Mercury winning over Mercury.

For my last game, I decided to target a small moon of Jupiter. A nameless moon, it only goes by S/2003 J 2. It's a very distant moon of Jupiter (perhaps the most distant moon of Jupiter we've ever seen!). There's just one thing. It might not even exist. It was spotted in 2003, and not enough observations were made to pin down its orbit. It's lost now. We don't know where it is. We'd need to find a new moon, and then determine its orbit, and then extrapolate back in time to figure out if it's the same moon as S/2003 J 2. Perhaps the existence of this moon is an error? We were sure it was there the first time.

If it's there, it's only 2 kilometers in diameter. Escape velocity is just over 1.4 m/s. Even walking at a somewhat fast speed would be enough to escape the gravitational pull.

And the game begins and the puck is sent flying off into orbit around Jupiter...

With something not even three centimeters in diameter, it will be a while until we find the puck. We'd need to search millions of kilometers of empty space around Jupiter. It will be easier to find undiscovered moons around Jupiter than it will be to find the puck.

Um... 0-0 anyone?