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  1. Dynamics of a granular asteroid after a subsonic DART-like impact

    Article • Icarus, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  2. A Universal Scaling Framework for Granular Asteroid Strength and its Application to Bennu's Surface

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  3. Asteroid Regolith Strength Modelling Informed by Bennu Sample Measurements

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  4. Centaurs’ Deep Interiors

    Article • May 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  5. Elliptical ejecta of asteroid Dimorphos is due to its surface curvature

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  6. Dimorphos’s Material Properties and Estimates of Crater Size from the DART Impact

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, February 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  7. Rapid formation of binary asteroid systems post rotational failure: A recipe for making atypically shaped satellites

    Article • Icarus, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  8. The Dynamical State of the Didymos System before and after the DART Impact

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, August 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  9. Rapid formation of binary asteroid systems post rotational failure: a recipe for making atypically shaped satellites

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  10. BYORP and Dissipation in Binary Asteroids: Lessons from DART

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, July 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  11. Dimorphos’s Orbit Period Change and Attitude Perturbation due to Its Reshaping after the DART Impact

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, June 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  12. Impact Disruption of Bjurböle Porous Chondritic Projectile

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, May 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana, Robert Luther

  13. Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact

    Article • Nature Astronomy, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  14. Direct N-body Simulations of Satellite Formation around Small Asteroids: Insights from DART’s Encounter with the Didymos System

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, February 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  15. Subsurface pulse, crater and ejecta asymmetry from oblique impacts into granular media

    Article • Icarus, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  16. Characterization of the DART Impact Ejecta Plume on Dimorphos from LICIACube Observations

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, December 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  17. Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

    Article • Nature, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  18. Surface particle motions excited by a low velocity normal impact into a granular medium

    Article • Icarus, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  19. Propagation and attenuation of pulses driven by low velocity normal impacts in granular media

    Article • Icarus, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  20. Asteroid regolith strength: Role of grain size and surface properties

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  21. Sub-surface granular dynamics in the context of oblique, low-velocity impacts into angular granular media

    Article • Icarus, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  22. After DART: Using the First Full-scale Test of a Kinetic Impactor to Inform a Future Planetary Defense Mission

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Prof. Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  23. Transmission of a Seismic Wave Generated by Impacts on Granular Asteroids

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  24. Near-zero cohesion and loose packing of Bennu’s near subsurface revealed by spacecraft contact

    Article • Science Advances, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  25. Predictions for the Dynamical States of the Didymos System before and after the Planned DART Impact

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, July 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  26. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Mutual Orbital Period Change Due to Reshaping in the Near-Earth Binary Asteroid System (65803) Didymos

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, July 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  27. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Structural and Dynamic Interactions between Asteroidal Elements of Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, June 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  28. Ricochets on asteroids II: Sensitivity of laboratory experiments of low velocity grazing impacts on substrate grain size

    Article • Icarus, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  29. Laboratory experiments with self-cohesive powders: Application to the morphology of regolith on small asteroids

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  30. Modified granular impact force laws for the OSIRIS-REx touchdown on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  31. A contact dynamics code implementation for the simulation of asteroid evolution and regolith in the asteroid environment

    Article • Icarus, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  32. LMGC90: a Contact Dynamics open source code for the simulation of granular asteroid with realistic regolith shapes. Application to the accretion process

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2021, EDP Sciences

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  33. Seismic waves in the asteroid environment

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2021, EDP Sciences

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  34. Ricochets on asteroids: Experimental study of low velocity grazing impacts into granular media

    Article • Icarus, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  35. Cohesive regolith on fast rotating asteroids

    Article • Icarus, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  36. Boulder stranding in ejecta launched by an impact generated seismic pulse

    Article • Icarus, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  37. Small Solar System Bodies as granular media

    Article • The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  38. The dynamic geophysical environment of (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx measurements

    Article • Nature Astronomy, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  39. Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness

    Article • Nature Geoscience, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  40. Simulations of wobble damping in viscoelastic rotators

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  41. Impact excitation of a seismic pulse and vibrational normal modes on asteroid Bennu and associated slumping of regolith

    Article • Icarus, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  42. Relationship between particle size, cohesive forces and asteroid strength

    Article • September 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  43. Implications of cohesive strength in asteroid interiors and surfaces and its measurement

    Article • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  44. Rotational evolution of self-gravitating aggregates with heterogeneous interiors

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  45. The Strata-1 experiment at the ISS

    Article • Acta Astronautica, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  46. Geotechnical Properties of Asteroids Affecting Surface Operations, Mining, and In Situ Resource Utilization Activities

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  47. Cavities on the equator of rotating asteroids

    Article • Icarus, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  48. Rolling resistance of a spherical pod on a granular bed

    Article • Granular Matter, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  49. Small solar system bodies as granular systems

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2017, EDP Sciences

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  50. Looking into the evolution of granular asteroids in the Solar System

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2017, EDP Sciences

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  51. Disruption patterns of rotating self-gravitating aggregates: A survey on angle of friction and tensile strength

    Article • Icarus, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  52. Asteroid Evolution: Role of Geotechnical Properties

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, August 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  53. INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF ASTEROIDS HAVING SURFACE SHEDDING DUE TO ROTATIONAL INSTABILITY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  54. Asteroid Surface Geophysics

    Article • January 2015, University of Arizona

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  55. Contact Motion on Surface of Asteroid

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, November 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  56. CONSTRAINTS ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MAIN BELT COMET P/2013 R3 FROM ITS BREAKUP EVENT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, June 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  57. How small pebbles and dust strengthen small asteroids

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  58. How cohesion forces allow small asteroids to rotate faster than they should

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  59. DEM simulation of rotation-induced reshaping and disruption of rubble-pile asteroids

    Article • Icarus, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  60. SIMULATING ASTEROID RUBBLE PILES WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING SOFT-SPHERE DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD MODEL

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  61. Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The role of cohesion

    Article • Icarus, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  62. Rheology of Confined Granular Flows: Scale Invariance, Glass Transition, and Friction Weakening

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  63. Separation of binary granular mixtures under vibration and differential magnetic levitation force

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  64. Stripe Formation in Granular Mixtures due to the Differential Influence of Drag

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  65. Numerical simulations of air-driven granular separation

    Article • November 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  66. Computational study of Nb-doped SrTiO3

    Article • Materials Letters, March 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  67. Superconductivity and Jahn-Teller Polarons in Titanates

    Article • Journal of Low Temperature Physics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  68. Dynamics of a ball that bounces on a vibrating platform.

    Article • November 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  69. Computational Studies and Comparison of Nb- and La-Doped SrTiO3

    Article • physica status solidi (b), April 2002, Wiley

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  70. Computational study of structural and electronic properties of superconducting La-doped SrTiO3

    Article • Philosophical Magazine B, December 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  71. A theoretical study of La-doping in strontium titanate

    Article • Materials Letters, June 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana

  72. Theoretical Studies of Impurity Doped and Undoped BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 Crystals

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Diego P Sánchez Lana