Here's a close-up photo of the little piece of plastic that fell off the Rover. The folks at JPL have concluded that it's likely a piece of detritus that fell off the skycrane during landing, and then subsequently fell off the Curiosity rover – most likely while it was waving it's arm around over Rocknest...
Are you SURE its not the discarded husk of an alien insect??? :D
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