The rocky body — the
largest yet to get a close flyby — seems to have been just
large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying
pile of rubble by eons
of collisions with other asteroids.
This remnant will bear an uneasy resemblance to a series
of burned or burning, charred and smoke - stained houses — sometimes no more than
piles of rubble — captured in
large - scale photographs in the gallery.