  Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in
planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey
of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y
over the course of ten years using a 6.5 m effective diameter telescope with a
9.6 square degree field of view, reaching approximately r = 24.5 mag
(5-{\sigma} depth) per visit. The resulting dataset will provide extraordinary
opportunities for both discovery and characterization of large numbers (10--100
times more than currently known) of small solar system bodies, furthering
studies of planetary formation and evolution. This white paper summarizes some
of the expected science from the ten years of LSST, and emphasizes that the
planetary astronomy community should remain invested in the path of Rubin
Observatory once the LSST is complete.
