20936 Nemrut Dagi in Turkey. It is the most western volcano of a group of volcanoes near Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 April 2012 (). 20936 Nemrut Dagi 20936 Nemrut Dagi, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 May 1971, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, on photographic
20936 Nemrut Dagi has a rather spheroidal shape. The results supersede previous observations made by Warner and by Brian A. Skiff, which gave similar results (). According to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has an exceptionally high albedo of 0.46 and a diameter of 3.6 kilometers, while the "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumed a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20, and correspondingly, calculates a much larger diameter of 5.3 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.8. This minor planet was named after the a dormant volcano Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)