The Moon, named after Yugoslavia

2 named features. The International Astronomical Union records why each name was chosen, and those reasons are printed below exactly as they were approved.

FEATURES · 2

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Milanković	crater	94.2 km	Milutin; Yugoslavian astronomer (1879-1958).
Mohorovičić	crater	50 km	Andrija; Croatian geophysicist (1857-1936). (Spelling changed from Mohoróvičic.)

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA