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Any plane that bisects a cone passing through the pointy tip and the diameter of the base i.e. through the axis of the cone, will be a plane of symmetry. Since any plane passing through the cone this way can be rotated by any angular increment and still remain a plane of symmetry, there are an infinite number of planes of symmetry.

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