D-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish spectrum.
[2] D-type asteroids are found in the outer asteroid belt and beyond; examples are 152 Atala, 944 Hidalgo and most Jupiter trojans.
It has been suggested that the Tagish Lake meteorite was a fragment from a D-type asteroid, and that the Martian moon Phobos is closely related.
[3] The Nice model suggests that D-type asteroids may have originated in the Kuiper belt.
[4] 46 D-type asteroids are known, including: 3552 Don Quixote, 944 Hidalgo, 624 Hektor, and 10199 Chariklo.