That might seem like a hassle, but it would be a small price to pay to get some rubble from a rock 200 million miles away.
A NASA spacecraft is about to scoop up some asteroid rubble|Neel Patel|October 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Scientists think that Bennu formed from the rubble of a collision its parent body experienced in the main asteroid belt of our solar system.
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows|Neel Patel|October 8, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In just a few weeks, OSIRIS-REx will attempt an audacious maneuver to collect a sample of rubble and small rock from Bennu’s surface and bring it to Earth for scientists to study.
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows|Neel Patel|October 8, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Some had been trained to sniff out people buried under rubble after an explosion.
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Its vision can help guide us out of the rubble, and help us to consider universes of better alternatives.
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Pages from the Quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble.
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And there are a few nice things buried beneath the rubble that I could use in my apartment.
I’m a Digital Hoarder|Lizzie Crocker|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.
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Within 10 seconds, his target vanishes in a muted cloud of smoke and rubble 7,000 miles away.
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They broke off into groups of a dozen and got to work collecting bricks and salvageable materials from the rubble.
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Into it he dropped the ring, covering it again with all the leafy "rubble and wreck" of the wood.
The Coryston Family|Mrs. Humphry Ward
The lower part of the mound was built of large blocks of limestone and rubble, held loosely together with friable mortar.
The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras|Thomas William Francis Gann
Rubble masonry packing and grout ejected through pipes built into the arch were used to fill the voids above the roof.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910|James H. Brace and Francis Mason
Our tools and texts were gone, buried in the rubble with the bodies of fine young men.
This Crowded Earth|Robert Bloch
At first there was nothing to be seen but a lot of dust and rubble, so I lit a bit of candle and cleared this away.
The Lost Continent|C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
British Dictionary definitions for rubble
rubble
/ (ˈrʌbəl) /
noun
fragments of broken stones, bricks, etc
any fragmented solid material, esp the debris from ruined buildings
quarryingthe weathered surface layer of rock
Also called: rubbleworkmasonry constructed of broken pieces of rock, stone, etc
Derived forms of rubble
rubbly, adjective
Word Origin for rubble
C14 robyl; perhaps related to Middle English rubben to rub, or to rubbish