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None, really, and here's why: to be a "planet" by the new definition, a body has to "dominate its orbit," meaning it has to be incontestably the biggest thing (or at least the most massive) in it. Now Charon is pretty big compared with Pluto (though not AS big) but in fact it's SO big that we don't have a planet-and-moon situation but one of two (actually, it's four or five now) "Kuiper Belt Objects" sharing an orbit.

Think of it this way: pick a same-sized friend, clasp hands and turn around each other. Who's the "planet" and who's the "moon"?

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