  Starting from an intrinsic geometric characterization of de Sitter timelike
and lightlike geodesics we give a new description of the conserved quantities
associated with classical free particles on the de Sitter manifold. These
quantities allow for a natural discussion of classical pointlike scattering and
decay processes. We also provide an intrinsic definition of energy of a
classical de Sitter particle and discuss its different expressions in various
local coordinate systems and their relations with earlier definitions found in
the literature.
