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
Nemrut (volcano) The direction of pressure coming from the Arabian plate is gradually turning from South-North to the West-East, with a linear shift of 7.8–9 mm per year. Fumarolic activity and the presence of many hot springs are observed at the bottom of the caldera. The volcano has an elliptical shape and covers 486 km. Its center contains 377.5 km of volcanic material, mainly 0.23–1.18 million years old lava. Nemrut has a distinct caldera with an area of 46.7 km and a volume of 32.9 km; the maximum height of the edge of the caldera is above sea level (Sivritepe, on the