[blam]

Heads Up. The asteroid/meteor/meteorite turned out to be a 'piece of a star.' Boy did we get it wrong, huh? <>

[RightWhale]

Sagan: We are made of starstuff.

Which is to say, the dust that coalesced to form planets and other debris was blown off a former nova or supernova. Everything is in this neighborhood a former piece of a star.