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K2
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high)
Synonyms:
Dapsang; Godwin Austen; K2; Mount Godwin Austen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Holonyms ("K2" is a part of...):
Karakoram; Karakoram Range; Karakorum Range; Mustagh; Mustagh Range (a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak)
Context examples:
For their research, the scientists used NASA's repurposed planet-hunting Kepler space telescope — its mission now known as K2 — along with the archival data from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory, a mission of the European Space Agency with NASA participation.
(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.
(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)
A surprising feature in the discovery of K2-33b is how close the newborn planet lies to its star.
(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)
K2-229b orbits this star every fourteen hours.
(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists using NASA's repurposed Kepler space telescope, known as the K2 mission, have uncovered strong evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf star.
(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)
Since K2-288Bb's radius places it in this gap, it may provide a case study of planetary evolution within this size range.
(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)
Astronomers at the Center for Space Exochemistry Data at the University College London in the United Kingdom used data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to find water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet around a small red dwarf star about 110 light-years away in the constellation Leo.
(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)
Additionally, the K2 mission is entirely community-driven with all targets proposed by the scientific community.
(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)
The first signals of the planet's existence were measured by K2.
(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)
They then calculated the size, position and mass of K2-229b by measuring the radial velocity of the star, and finding out how much the starlight ‘wobbles’ during orbit, due to the gravitational tug from the planet, which changes depending on the planet’s size.
(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
