Would alien litterbugs accidentally create a star?

Situation: an alien family stops for about half an Earth hour in the middle of the cloud to have a snack along their trip (by stops I mean they get null relative velocity with respect to the cloud's collective motion). The kids in the family, after playing for a while with a ball, the size of a tennis ball, filled with sand or lead, leave it next to their starship and forget it there when they leave.

Question: besides neglecting the "no litter" signs on the space highway, will this plausibly result in triggering the formation of a star?

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