As part of the Vera Rubin survey project, tests and metrics should be used to hone the plan. Those metrics are now being used on a simulation of the sky survey. Try the homepage, https://sorcha.space . For papers describing these Vera Rubin simulations, see these new papers just out on arXiv (and later, in Astronomical Journal). Or, see the authors themselves give their rundown on YouTube:
J. A. Kurlander, P. H. Bernardinelli, M. E. Schwamb, M. Jurić, J. Murtagh, et al. Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (in press; Astronomical Journal) (https://youtu.be/fvpOfraHGGo)
Murtaugh et al. Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs (in press; Astronomical Journal)
Merritt et al. Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (in press; Astronomical Journal)
Holman et al. Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation (in press; Astronomical Journal)
For an accessible description, see the U-Washington press release:
https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/06/03/sorcha/
Jackson Holtz June 3, 2025
Millions of new solar system objects to be found and ‘filmed in technicolor’ – studies predict
Or you could read my one-sentence summary: It looks like the Vera Rubin Observatory will deliver, as planned, tens of thousands of NEOs, a dramatic increase in Kuiper Belt Objects, and no shortage of comets and Centaurs.