Lake Nemrut the world. Nemrut Caldera is world's second largest one. The western half of the crater is covered by the lake. AT the summit, there are five lakes, two of them existing permanently and the others seasonal. The biggest of the lakes is Lake Nemrut in the form of crescent. It contains freshwater of colorless, odorless and drink water quality. Lake Nemrut is situated at an elevation of about above main sea level. It has an area of , and its average depth is about with a maximum depth of . Nemrut Caldera is on the youngest volcanic cone in Turkey,
20936 Nemrut Dagi the fruitful collaboration of the Palomar and Leiden Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory where astrometry was carried out. The trio are credited with the discovery of . In December 2015, a rotational lightcurve of "Nemrut Dagi" was obtained by American astronomer Brian Warner at his CS3–Palmer Divide Station () in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of 0.08 magnitude (), indicating that the body