We study the problem of recovering an atomic measure on the unit 2-sphere (Formula presented.) given finitely many moments with respect to spherical harmonics. The analysis relies on the formulation of this problem as an optimization problem on the space of bounded Borel measures on (Formula presented.) as it was considered by Y. de Castro & F. Gamboa (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 395(1):336–354, 2012) and E. Candés & C. Fernandez-Granda (J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 19(6):1229–1254, 2013). We construct a dual certificate using a kernel given in an explicit form and make a concrete analysis of the interpolation problem. Numerical examples are provided and analyzed.