Nemrut (volcano) Nemrut (volcano) Nemrut (, "Sarakn", "Mountain spring", , ) is a dormant volcano in Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC. The most powerful eruptions of Nemrut occurred in the Pleistocene. Many small eruptions occurred during the Holocene, the last one in 1692. The top of the volcano is a large caldera that hosts three crater lakes. Nemrut is a polygenic stratovolcano located in the collision zone of the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which determines the seismic and volcanic activity in
20936 Nemrut Dagi and 6 months (922 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 19° with respect to the ecliptic. Due to its perihelion of less than 1.668 AU, "Nemrut Dagi" is classified as a Mars-crosser by the Lightcurve Data Base, while in JPL's data base, which requires a perihelion of less than 1.666 AU, the asteroid is simply an inner main-belt asteroid. The asteroid's observation arc begins 18 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its identification at Palomar Observatory in February 1953. The survey designation "T-1" stands for the first Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey, named after