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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new next-generation survey facility on Cerro Pachón, Chile. It houses the 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope coupled with the 3.2 Gigapixel LSSTCam camera. Over a ten-year period – projected to start in late 2025 – Rubin will execute the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Enabled by its 9.6 square degree field of view and a cadence that will image the sky in multiple filters every 3-4 days to ~24.5 mag, within a year the LSST will become the largest catalog of small body observations to date. This survey will discover millions of new objects ranging from orbits inward of Venus to far beyond that of Neptune. The LSST will go beyond just discovery; over its 10-year mission, it will obtain broad-band optical colors and phase curves, and perform real-time monitoring capturing episodes of cometary activity, changes in orbit, asteroid collisions, rotational breakup events, as well as rotational brightness variations. With its volume, richness, and precision, the LSST can dramatically advance the understanding of the Solar System.

The session will present the first Solar System discoveries and characterization data from Rubin commissioning efforts, and preliminary analyses made with those observations. We will also introduce the services and resources for public data access, including documentation and tutorials. We welcome submissions focused on topics related to early LSST Solar System science such as: predictions of discovery yields, presentations on Solar System-oriented alert brokers and other science-enabling tools, follow-up observations and campaigns, citizen science projects, and ways to combine LSST data with other sources of astronomical data. With the full LSST data stream arriving just a few months following this session, we hope to excite and prepare the community for science with this one-of-a-kind dataset.