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Why does the number of dwarf planets recognized by astronomers in the solar system sometimes increase?

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User Rhuff
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Because sometimes it happens that they discover a dwarf planet
that nobody ever knew about before. When that happens, they
ADD the new one to the list of known dwarf planets, and then the
total number of dwarf planets on the list increases by 1 .
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