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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new NSF/DOE-funded facility on Cerro Pachón, Chile. It houses the 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope and the 3.2 Gigapixel LSSTCam camera. The Observatory is in the final stages of commissioning, expected to enter operations by the end of 2025. Once operational, Rubin will execute the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Enabled by its 9.6 square degree field of view and a cadence covering the sky every 3-4 days to ~24.5 mag, the LSST dataset can dramatically advance the understanding of the Solar System and planetary defense.

This talk will present the first public Solar System-related results from Rubin's early commissioning efforts, their implications to Planetary Defense, and discuss the plans to submit Rubin single-night high-confidence tracklets for inclusion on the NEOCP. Because publication could initially increase NEOCP traffic to >100 new objects per night, at very low purity (<10%; Wagg et al. 2025), it will be important to organize community follow-up around the highest confidence and follow-up value candidates. I will present some options, and hope to initiate a discussion on what the community would like to see for successful follow-up of Rubin NEOCP submissions.