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KOI-319
KOI-319 is a Sun-like star in Cygnus hosting two confirmed exoplanets announced in 2014: KOI-319 b, a Jupiter-sized gas giant found by transit, and the massive KOI-319 c.
KOI-3503
KOI-3503, also cataloged as Kepler-1703, is an F-type star about 887 parsecs away with two confirmed transiting super-Earth planets, KOI-3503 b and c, announced in 2021 from Kepler transit and transit-timing data; planet c's 10.36 Earth mass figure is an upper limit.
KOI-55
KOI-55 (Kepler-70, KIC 05807616) is a hot B-type subdwarf, a former red-giant core, with two tiny 2011 planet candidates found by orbital brightness modulation; both are flagged controversial.
KOI-5715.01
KOI-5715.01 is an unconfirmed transiting planet candidate in NASA's Kepler KOI catalog, about 1.93 Earth radii wide, orbiting the K-type star KOI-5715 every 190 days at 0.6066 astronomical units.
KOI-7892
KOI-7892 (KIC 8540376) is a distant F-type Kepler star hosting three confirmed transiting Neptune-like planets: Kepler-457 d (10.69 d), KIC 8540376 b (31.81 d), and KIC 8540376 c (75.2 d), confirmed in 2015 and 2021.
KOI-94
KOI-94 (Kepler-89) is a four-planet F-type star system found by Kepler, home of the first observed planet-planet eclipse, a Saturn-mass warm giant KOI-94 d, and a spin-orbit aligned host.
KOI-984
KOI-984 is a Sun-like star 252.667 pc away with two confirmed planets: transiting KOI-984 b (4.29 d, 4.3 Earth radii) and warm Jupiter KOI-984 c (21.5 d, 0.66 Jupiter masses, eccentric), a compact, highly mutually inclined system from Sun et al. 2022.
Koi... Mil Gaya (कोई... मिल गया)
Koi... Mil Gaya (कोई... मिल गया) is a 2003 Hindi sci-fi drama directed by Rakesh Roshan, starring Hrithik Roshan as Rohit Mehra, whose encounter with the alien Jadoo transforms him; India's first big-budget Hindi sci-fi, with Krrish sequels.
Koichi Akashi
Koichi Akashi is a Japanese hematologist and professor at Kyushu University known for identifying the blood system's common lymphoid and myeloid progenitors and for leukemia stem cell research.
Koichi Kitazumi
Koichi Kitazumi (北角浩一, born 1961) is a Japanese game-industry founder who established the company that became Nippon Ichi Software, the Kakamigahara developer known for Disgaea.
Koichi Mizushima
Koichi Mizushima (水島公一) is a Japanese physicist who, in John Goodenough's Oxford laboratory in 1980, discovered the lithium cobalt oxide cathode on which the lithium-ion battery rests.
Koichi Nakamura
Koichi Nakamura (中村光一) is a Japanese game designer who founded Chunsoft in 1984, programmed the original Dragon Quest, pioneered the sound novel genre, and later chaired Spike Chunsoft.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一), born 1959 in Toyama City, Japan, is a Japanese analytical chemist at Shimadzu who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for soft laser desorption.
Koichi Yamadera
Koichi Yamadera (山寺宏一, born 1961 in Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor, singer, and television personality known for Cowboy Bebop and dubbing Donald Duck.
Koichiro Harada
Koichiro Harada (原田耕一郎) is a Japanese mathematician in finite group theory who gave his name, with Simon Norton, to the Harada–Norton group, a sporadic simple group.
Koichiro Nakamura
Koichiro Nakamura, known as Koh, is a Japanese venture capitalist who cofounded Sozo Ventures in 2012 and became the first Japanese investor on the Forbes Midas List in 2021.
Kōichirō Nishikawa
Kōichirō Nishikawa (西川公一郎; 1949–2018) was a Japanese particle physicist who pioneered long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, proposing and leading K2K and founding T2K, work honored by the Breakthrough Prize.
Koichiro Oshima
Koichiro Oshima (大嶌 幸一郎) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling of alkyl halides with Grignard reagents and triethylborane-initiated radical reactions.
Koichiro Tamura
Koichiro Tamura (田村 浩一郎) is a Japanese evolutionary biologist, professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, known for developing MEGA, one of the most widely used tools in molecular phylogenetics.
Koichiro Tsunewaki
Koichiro Tsunewaki (1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist and Kyoto University professor who classified wheat cytoplasms and pinpointed common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.
Kōichirō Tsunewaki
Kōichirō Tsunewaki (常脇恒一郎, 1930–2022) was a Japanese plant geneticist, a Kyoto University professor and Japan Academy member known for plasmon analysis that traced wheat's maternal lineages and located common wheat's origin near the Caspian Sea.
Koidutäht Vallis
Koidutäht Vallis is a 700 km-diameter lava channel on Venus at 76.5S, 130E, IAU-named in 1997 from the Estonian word for Venus; measured length 811 km, sinuosity 1.11.
Koikawa Harumachi
Koikawa Harumachi (恋川春町, 1744–1789), real name Kurakoshi Itaru, was a samurai writer and illustrator of mid-Edo Japan who founded the kibyōshi genre with Kinkin sensei eiga no yume in 1775.
Koile Syria/Massyas
Coele Syria (Greek Koile Syria, "Hollow Syria") was an ancient region of the Near East, roughly modern Israel, Lebanon, and southwestern Syria; Massyas was a plain within it.
Koilocyte
Koilocyte: HPV-infected squamous epithelial cell with perinuclear halo and abnormal nucleus, pathognomonic of HPV infection and a marker of LSIL; coined by Koss and Durfee (1956).
Kōin family register
The Kōin family register (庚寅年籍) was a nationwide household register compiled in Japan in 690 under Empress Jitō to fix people at their registered places and enable taxation.
Koine Greek
Koine Greek (hē koinē dialektos, 'the common dialect') is the common Greek of the Hellenistic and Roman East, c. 323 BCE to Late Antiquity. Based on Attic, it was Alexander's empire's administrative lingua franca, the New Testament's language, and the ancestor of medieval and modern Greek.
Koiné language
Koiné, or Koine dialect (Greek for "the common dialect"), was the common Greek that spread after Alexander the Great's conquests and became the language of the New Testament.
Koinonia (κοινωνία)
Koinonia (κοινωνία) is a Greek word meaning fellowship, sharing, or participation, used 19 times in the New Testament for relationships from money to the Eucharist, and now the technical term for unity between churches.
Koios Medical, Inc.
Koios Medical, Inc., formerly Clearview Diagnostics, is a New York City biotechnology company, founded in 2011, that develops FDA-cleared artificial intelligence decision-support software for breast and thyroid ultrasound.