rubble pile
Collapsed building remains
A rubble pile is an asteroid or small celestial body held together loosely by gravity rather than as a solid mass—a collection of rocks, dust, and debris clumped together.
The term extends to any heap of broken stone or debris: The demolition left nothing but a rubble pile where the building once stood.
- celestial bodyNatural space object
- astronomyScience of celestial objects
- orbitCurved celestial path
- held togetherMaintained structural unity
- space rockExtraterrestrial geological fragment
meteoroid · debris · broken apart · space junk · regolith · ruins · wreckage · breccia · asteroid · scree · talus · porosity · fragments · aggregate · boulders · concrete · chunks · scattered
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
- Moundsant mound, anthill, burial mound, cairn, heap
- pilesheap, stack, mound, accumulation, woodpile
- space rocksasteroid, asteroids, meteorites, meteorite, meteors
- Asteroidsasteroids, asteroid belt, near-Earth objects, Ceres, Vesta
- Dumpsitesdump, dumpsite, garbage dump, landfill, rubbish tip