It's a loosely bound rubble pile as DART's closing images showed.

如 DART 的近距离图像显示的那样，它是一个松散结合的碎石堆。

Search teams recovered eight more bodies at the rubble pile early today, 109 people still missing.

今天早些时候，搜救队在废墟中又发现了8具尸体，仍有109人下落不明。

I'm interested in knowing more about the properties of a wide diversity of asteroids, because it may not be a rubble pile that comes at us every time.

我有兴趣更多了解各种各样小行星的特性，因为每次向我们跑来的不一定都是碎石堆。

Certain asteroids, like Ryugu and Bennu, are rubble piles, essentially a strange space conglomerate—a type of sedimentary rock—where boulders and particulates are held gravitationally, says planetary scientist Bethany Ehlmann of Caltech.

加州理工学院的行星科学家贝瑟尼·埃尔曼说，某些小行星，比如龙宫和贝努，是碎石堆，本质上是一种奇特的太空集合体——一种沉积岩——巨石和微粒在重力作用下聚集在一起。

But the coolest thing of all is that eensy-weensy creatures on a rubble pile around a totally average star in a totally average galaxy can win the battle to understand their world.

但最酷的是，在一个非常普通的星系中，围绕着一颗非常普通的恒星，一群不起眼的生物（人类）在瓦砾堆上 能够赢得探索它们世界的战斗。

Over time, enough hits like that can leave behind what's called a rubble pile: individual rocks held together by their own gravity, like a bag of gravel, or a car window that's been cracked and still holds its overall shape.

随着时间的推移，这样的撞击就足以形成所谓的“碎石堆”：单个的岩石通过自身的引力而聚集在一起，就像一袋碎石，或者是一扇已经破裂但仍保持着整体形状的车窗。