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We present a community-led assessment of the solar system investigationsachievable with NASA's next-generation space telescope, the Wide Field InfraRedSurvey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST will provide imaging, spectroscopic, andcoronagraphic capabilities from 0.43-2.0 $\mu$m and will be a potentialcontemporary and eventual successor to JWST. Surveys of irregular satellitesand minor bodies are where WFIRST will excel with its 0.28 deg$^2$ field ofview Wide Field Instrument (WFI). Potential ground-breaking discoveries fromWFIRST could include detection of the first minor bodies orbiting in the InnerOort Cloud, identification of additional Earth Trojan asteroids, and thediscovery and characterization of asteroid binary systems similar toIda/Dactyl. Additional investigations into asteroids, giant planet satellites,Trojan asteroids, Centaurs, Kuiper Belt Objects, and comets are presented.Previous use of astrophysics assets for solar system science and synergiesbetween WFIRST, LSST, JWST, and the proposed NEOCam mission are discussed. Wealso present the case for implementation of moving target tracking, a featurethat will benefit from the heritage of JWST and enable a broader range of solarsystem observations.

Solar system science with the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST)