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by Etherlord87 829 days ago
Can we call it an estimation if it's a range (18 to 20 times further than the Moon) and yet it is incorrect?

If he said "between 2 and 1'000'000 times farther than Moon", it would be very imprecise, but not incorrect. If he said "20 times farther" - it would be an extremely inaccurate estimate.